Ezra 6:3

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

3 ‹‹Kral Koreş, krallığının birinci yılında, Tanrının Yeruşalimdeki Tapınağına ilişkin şöyle buyruk verdi: ‹Kurban kesmek üzere bu tapınağın yeniden kurulması için temel atılsın. Üç sıra büyük taş, bir sıra kiriş döşensin. Yüksekliği ve genişliği altmışar arşınfı olsun. Giderler saraydan karşılansın.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the first year: Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 5:13-15, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 2 Chronicles 36:23

the place: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:11-14, 2 Chronicles 2:6, Psalms 122:4

the height: 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:3, 2 Chronicles 3:3, 2 Chronicles 3:4, Ezekiel 41:13-15, Revelation 21:16

Reciprocal: Ezra 3:7 - according Ezra 4:3 - king Cyrus Ezra 5:15 - let the house Ezra 5:17 - a decree Isaiah 44:28 - saying Isaiah 60:10 - their kings Jeremiah 30:18 - the palace Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the first year of Cyrus the king; the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded,.... See Ezra 1:1,

the place where they offered sacrifices; to God in times past, ever since it was built by Solomon:

and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; so as to bear and support the building erected on them, as the word signifies:

the height thereof sixty cubits; which were thirty more than the height of Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:2 though sixty less than the height of the porch, which was one hundred and twenty, 2 Chronicles 3:4 and which some take to be the height of the whole house; and hence it may be observed what Herod said y, that the temple then in being wanted sixty cubits in height of that of Solomon's:

and the breadth thereof sixty cubits; whereas the breadth of Solomon's temple was but twenty, 1 Kings 6:2, but since it cannot reasonably be thought that the breadth should be equal to the height, and so very disproportionate to Solomon's temple; many learned men understand this of the extension of it as to length, which exactly agrees with the length of the former temple, 1 Kings 6:2.

y Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is difficult to reconcile the dimentions here with expressions in Zechariah Zechariah 4:10, Haggai Haggai 2:3, and even Ezra Ezra 3:12, which imply that the second temple was smaller than the first (compare 1 Kings 6:2). Perhaps the dimensions here are those which Cyrus required the Jews not to exceed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 6:3. The height thereof threescore cubits — This was much larger than the temple of Solomon. This was sixty cubits high, and sixty cubits broad; whereas Solomon's was only twenty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high.